Soon I will be an Adult (TM)

I did most of my introspection for my upcoming summertime of adulthood back in July. But I hadn't gone back to last year's list of goals yet. For me, it seems making a list of tenable goals and resolutions works better at my birthday than at New Year's. Perhaps it's the additional reminder that I am only marching forwards, growing older, and this next year might be the one where I can really change things.

Well, last year at this time I was unemployed and only just beginning to get in the dumps about it. Grandpa had just died. It was fucking hot. I had just tried to start up my photography business (haha, what happened to that, eh?). I was home by myself all day every day and trying to put on a happy face about it. And it might even have been fun if it weren't for the constant stress of not knowing when I would have a job/money again/if ever. But I was writing somewhere between 2-5k a day and that in itself was wondrous.

My goals from last year? "I know I want to continue with what I've been doing: exercising, writing, photographing, creating, living and loving. And there are things I can do in each of those categories to keep improving: work on my upper body strength, work on my editing skills, practice and learn about business, learn a new skill, make friends and appreciate the ones I have."

And awesomely enough, I've done most of that. I'm finally exercising on a regular basis, I'm still writing (although I could do a much better job at consistency), I'm still photographing (although that ebbed a bunch in the last few months), I'm still creating (I totally sewed myself some shoddy kitchen curtains), and I'm probably still alive and full of love. My upper body strength is improving steadily, along with my lower body. My editing has become finer. Not so much in the business department. I guess the skill I learned could either be baking cupcakes like nobody's business or sewing, although the sewing is still a WIP. And I at least made one friend since last year. :)

I think, for this upcoming year, the most important thing for me is to stick with the exercise and get a bust on the writing. If I could write at least 1k a day every day for the next year - well. I'd have a shit-ton of writing. I think that will be my sole goal for my first year of summertime adulthood. It just smacks of adult responsibility, doesn't it?

Now, I just need some clever way to hold myself accountable. Maybe I'll revive pretty_pink_jar as a way to have somewhere to post daily whatever I write and therefore hold myself accountable. Or, if you have any other solutions, I will gladly hear them.